Great Short Stories of the World -- a collection of complete short stories chosen from the literatures of all periods and countries
by Barrett Harper Clark, Barrett H. Clark, Maxim Lieber, Charles Dickens, Fiódor Dostoievski, Антон Павлович Чехов, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, BARRETT H. CLARK, CLARK AND LIEBER, Gerda Charles, Clark, Barrett H.; Lieber, Maxim, Barrett H. & Maxim Lieber Clark, Clark, Barrett H. / Lieber, Maxim, Barrett H. and Maxim Lieber Clark, Clark & Lieber, Barrett Harper Clark · 1922
The two brothers (Anpu and Bata) / Anonymous -- Setna and the magic book / Anonymous -- Eumæus' : talk / Homer -- The country mouse and the town mouse / Æsop -- King Rhampsinitus and the thief / Herodotus -- Phineus and the harpies / Apollonius of Rhodes -- The robbers of Egypt / Heliodorus -- Horatius at the bridge / Livy -- Orpheus and the Eurydice / Ovid -- The shipwreck of Simonides / Phædrus -- The matron of Ephesus / Petronius -- The haunted house / Pliny the Younger -- The dream / Apuleius -- The book of Ruth (Old Testament) -- The history of Susanna (The Apocrypha) -- The prodigal son (New Testament) -- The raising of Lazarus (New Testament) -- Rabbi Akiva (The Talmud) -- The Jewish mother (The Talmud) -- The ass in the lion's skin (Jataka) -- The dove and the crow (Panchatantra) -- The story of Devadatta / Somadeva -- The jackal (Hitopadesa) -- Jamshid and Zuhak / Firdawsi -- The sailor and the pearl merchant / Anonymous -- Khaled and Djaida / Al-Asmal -- Abou Hassan the wag (Thousand and one nights) -- Grendel's raid (Beowulf) -- Esyllt and Sabrina / Geoffrey of Monmouth -- The humbling of Jovinian (Gesta Romanorum) -- Lludd and Llevelys (The Mabinogion) -- Launcelot's to
For young readers
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